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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Class matters
    sub title: the strange career of an American delusion
  name:
    name part: Fraser, Steve
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 287 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage," class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating how class matters precisely because Americans work so hard to pretend it doesn't. He examines six signposts of American history, the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown, the ratification of the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, the cowboy, the 'kitchen debate' between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev and Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, to explore just how pervasively class has shaped our national conversation. With a historian's intellectual command and a riveting narrative voice, Fraser interweaves these examples with his own past, including his civil rights activism in Mississippi and his false arrest on charges of planning to blow up the Liberty Bell during the antiwar era, to tell a story both urgent and timeless.
  table of contents: Introduction: The enigma of class in America -- East of Eden -- We the people in the city of brotherly love -- Wretched refuse -- There was a young cowboy : homeless on the range -- John Smith visits suburbia -- Free at last? : "I have a dream" and involuntary servitude -- The homeland.
  note: Steve Fraser.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Social conflict
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Protest movements
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Income distribution
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Power (Social sciences)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-1953
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-1989
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
  classification: E169.Z8 F73 2018
  classification: 305.50973
  identifier: 9780300221503
  identifier: 0300221509
  identifier: 2017948003
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170828
    record change date: 20181023093354.0
    record identifier: in00004022689